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Spice Bazaar

IstanbulIstanbul ProvinceTurkey

Without a code
Spice Bazaar, Istanbul, and then directions
With a code
#J2F93-KN2PR
Said aloud
Spice Bazaar KN2PR

This code is one spot in Spice Bazaar, a cell 2.56 m by 2.58 m. Every stall front and doorway in it has a code of its own.

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What the code says

The Grid Point Code for Spice Bazaar is #J2F93-KN2PR. It names a cell 2.56 m north to south and 2.58 m east to west, centred on 41°00'59.03"N, 28°58'13.95"E, and it turns back into that cell on any phone or computer by arithmetic alone: no network, no account, no lookup table.

What it is
Food market in Istanbul, Turkey
Code
#J2F93-KN2PR
With a check character
#J2F93-KN2PR*N
Short form
KN2PR
Cell centre
41.016396, 28.970542
Cell size
2.56 m by 2.58 m
City
Istanbul
Region
Istanbul Province
Country
Turkey

How to give this address

On a sign, a form or a delivery note

The whole code, #J2F93-KN2PR. It needs nothing else: no city, no street, no network to read it back.

Said aloud, in Istanbul

Spice Bazaar KN2PR: a name both people know, then the last five characters. They give back the exact code for anywhere within 4.0 km north or south and 4.0 km east or west of Spice Bazaar. Further away the same five name somewhere else, which is why the whole code is what goes on a sign.

Copied by hand, or read over a phone

#J2F93-KN2PR*N. The character on the end catches any single mistyped symbol and any two neighbours swapped.

As a link or a square code

Open it on the map, move to the exact door, and add directions if the code needs help: "blue gate, second floor". The link and the square code carry them. Nothing is kept on this site.

From the city to the door

The first four characters name a cell about 40 km by 40.3 km here. Each one after that picks one of 25 inside the last, so the whole ten name a spot about the size of a doorway.

  1. J2F9Metropolitan area40 km by 40.3 km
  2. J2F93District8 km by 8.06 km
  3. J2F93KSuburb1.6 km by 1.61 km
  4. J2F93KNA few streets320 m by 323 m
  5. J2F93KN2Building64 m by 64.5 m
  6. J2F93KN2PEntrance12.8 m by 12.9 m
  7. J2F93KN2PRDoorway2.56 m by 2.58 m

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